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Sunday, May 20, 2007

What Profit

*The Colossus, Francisco Goya

FLASH: Click on Comments below, Blogger comments aren't postingthe regular way. I've posted Robert Fisk's piece in The Independent today about the view over Tripoli which looks hauntinglylike this Goya piece. Or google The Independent. They haven't putthis into the portfolio yet so it's still free reading.

What Profit?

Mark 16:26What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?

I doubt American history will reveal the depth of American Fascismin the administration of George W. Bush because the coilfrom which it catapulted to mass insanity was tightly wound,by accident and intent, in other administrations,by other profiteers, and Amerians don't consider ourselveswar criminals.

Jimmy Carter said recently GW Bush is the worstpresident in history. There's more.We're looking at a world-scale Nerowith his finger on a nuclear trigger.

How did we allow election after electionto be stolen without demanding verifiable voting?

Yesterday there was a huge party on the other sideof our backyard fence. Scraps of conversation drifted intoour yard late into the night. "I don't think they evenlisten to Fox News," Jay said.

The news re-writes history as it happens and fermentsmass delusion.

The "civil war" which has "broken out" in Gaza this weekfor instance, looks more like stage three (or 30) in a US backedcoup to take out the democratically elected Hamas government —Stage one sent the Hamas leader to prison, stage two was Israel’sinvasion of Gaza which "caused" the invasion of Lebanon.Now US backed Fatah war lords kill scores of Hamas leaders,and Israel air strikes back them up.

By now this should sound familiar to us,but if it does, why don’t we stop it?

What we should see is a sixty-year Palistinian Diaspora,tragic and bloody, "just"-ified by Hitler's horrific holocaust,what we ought to understand is that these horrorshave no Justice in them.

Hitler didn't do it alone. Neither did George W. Bush,Tony Blair, Dick Cheney.

The postmortum on Democracy?Will anyone lay out how global capitalism killed it?

Here is what the women in Iraq say aboutour latest democracy born of shock and awe,funnel for vast profiteering.

. . . Mohammed: Well, you know, the billions of dollars that we hear should have reached Iraq and been spent for the reconstruction-well, we don't see any reconstruction. Whatever they have tried to construct, like the electricity generators and water supply and all of that-they have been blown away by the resistance over and over again, so they stopped doing those.

Anderson: Those are particular targets for the resistance.

Mohammed: Yes, yes, because they do not like to see the country run in the American way. So, the answer here is that it cannot be solved by money. There is a political issue to be solved, and later on the reconstruction follows. We're not saying that money should not be spent on the reconstruction, but the political issues have really stopped, and there is absolutely no communication, and all of the solutions are reaching a dead end. So, all talk of reconstruction is nonsense at this point. We have not seen any buildings reconstructed in Iraq. I wonder what they're talking about.

Anderson: And the utilities are, at this point, shot?

Mohammed: Nothing! We get electricity one hour in the morning and one hour at night, and in the last two days there was no electricity. We did not see any new buildings built, unless they are inside the Green Zone, where we cannot see them.

Anderson: And there was a wall being constructed in April. ...

Mohammed: Not one wall-there are 10 layers of concrete walls that we have to be searched over and over until we reach the Green Zone. So, maybe there is some reconstruction in there, but I've been there and I haven't seen really much. So where are these billions going? I have no answer, but I think they are going somewhere else.